“They really messed up,” said Lena Schilling, who leads the 2040 target negotiations for the Greens. “There was a bidding process among the coordinators, and the EPP had the chance to go higher than the Patriots did.”
Peter Liese,…
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Pentagon provided $2.4tn to private arms firms to ‘fund war and weapons’, report finds | US military
A new study of defense department spending previewed exclusively to the Guardian shows that most of the Pentagon’s discretionary spending from 2020 to 2024 has gone to outside military contractors, providing a $2.4tn boon in public funds to…
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A look at the countries that received tariff letters from Trump
President Donald Trump sent letters to 14 countries Monday outlining higher tariffs they’ll face if they don’t make trade deals with the U.S. by Aug. 1.
In the letters, which were posted on Truth Social, Trump warned…
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Neolithic farming halls older than Stonehenge discovered beneath school
An early Neolithic timber hall has been found beneath a school in Scotland,…
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Russian minister’s death serves as warning to political elite
It was a dramatic start to the week in Russia.
On Monday morning, President Vladimir Putin sacked his transport minister, Roman Starovoit.
By the afternoon Starovoit was dead; his body was discovered in a park on the edge of Moscow with a gunshot wound…
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France and UK to stop small boats together, says Macron
Sam FrancisPolitical reporter
Henry ZeffmanChief political correspondent
PA MediaFrench President Emmanuel Macron has said the UK and France “will deliver” on stopping small boat crossings, ahead of negotiations with Sir Keir Starmer this week.
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Russian lawmakers vote to restore Federal Security Service’s right to operate its own jails — Meduza
Russia’s State Duma has passed legislation that officially restores the Federal Security Service’s authority to operate its own pretrial detention facilities. Deputy Vasily Piskarev, who cosponsored the bill, said the agency, known as the…
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International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders, accusing them of persecuting women
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The International Criminal Court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two top Taliban leaders, accusing them of persecuting girls and women in Afghanistan.
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